Category Archives: Multiple Sclerosis
ESA benefit to be stopped as early as April 2012
Government to impose time limit on Employment Support Allowance
Published date: 15 Sep 2011 at 2:39PM
ESA benefit to be stopped as early as April 2012
The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) plans to introduce a time limit of one year for all but the most seriously ill people claiming ESA. The decision is likely to affected thousands of people with MS.
Personalization for patients and carers
A Personal Approach – to patients and carers
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si5FVXQkCZE&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
In this short video aimed at patients and carers, Dr Stu Farrimond introduces a number of professionals, patients and carers, who talk about how a more personalised approach to care can improve outcomes.
The film complements a new document ‘A Personal Approach’ which sets out the financial and clinical evidence for personalised healthcare. https://www.eoe.nhs.uk/personalisation
CANCER sufferers will be prescribed a spray containing cannabis as a new form of pain relief treatment
Cannabis to be used in hospital treatment
CANCER sufferers will be prescribed a spray containing cannabis as a new form of pain relief treatment.
Experts say the medication – derived from marijuana plants – works by numbing the muscles.
It will be given to terminally-ill hospital patients as part of a ground-breaking trial.
But Sativex does not get users high. Research nurse Sam Jole said: “Patients using the spray do not experience the euphoria associated with illegal recreational use of cannabis.
“It has passed strict tests for quality, safety and efficacy and doctors already prescribe it to other patients.”
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